{"id":8345,"date":"2012-10-25T14:24:12","date_gmt":"2012-10-25T18:24:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/?p=8345"},"modified":"2012-10-25T14:24:12","modified_gmt":"2012-10-25T18:24:12","slug":"richard-mourdoch-rape-gift-from-god-limerick","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/2012\/10\/25\/richard-mourdoch-rape-gift-from-god-limerick\/","title":{"rendered":"Limerick Ode To Richard Mourdoch"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Every time I think Republicans couldn&#8217;t possibly get crazier or more extreme about banning abortion, someone like Indiana&#8217;s Richard Mourdoch proves me wrong.<\/p>\n<p>By now, the would-be senator&#8217;s bizarre comments about <a href=\"http:\/\/newsfeed.time.com\/2012\/10\/24\/indiana-republican-rep-another-rape-gaffe\/\">abortion and rape<\/a>, and his <a href=\"http:\/\/thinkprogress.org\/election\/2012\/10\/24\/1081421\/mourdock-refuses-to-apologize-for-claim-that-rape-pregnancies-are-a-gift-from-god\/\">non-apology apology<\/a> are all too familiar.  So is the fact that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/2012\/10\/25\/jon-huntsman-mitt-romney-richard-mourdock_n_2017322.html\">Romney has refused to withdraw his endorsement<\/a> and his pro-Mourdoch ad.<\/p>\n<p>So I&#8217;ll simply leave you with this serious limerick:<\/p>\n<p>Limerick Ode To Richard Mourdoch<br \/>\nBy Madeleine Begun Kane<\/p>\n<p>By Mourdoch, I&#8217;m shocked &#8212; left agape:<br \/>\nHe claims if you&#8217;re pregnant from rape,<br \/>\nIt&#8217;s a God-given gift.<br \/>\nSo how dare you be miffed!<br \/>\nYour future&#8217;s not yours to reshape.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Every time I think Republicans couldn&#8217;t possibly get crazier or more extreme about banning abortion, someone like Indiana&#8217;s Richard Mourdoch proves me wrong. By now, the would-be senator&#8217;s bizarre comments about abortion and rape, and his non-apology apology are all too familiar. So is the fact that Romney has refused to withdraw his endorsement and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[182,72,21,121,20,6,7,3,9,12],"tags":[2823,1382,839,1790,1133,938,1886,702,2141,283],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8345"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8345"}],"version-history":[{"count":23,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8345\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8368,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8345\/revisions\/8368"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8345"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8345"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8345"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}